 In January 1993, Warner Brothers Records, owned by Time Warner and owning Sire Records, which had cancelled Ice-T's new rap album, announced freeing all Body Count artists from their contracts.Yet after "The Chronic", despite an associated, beating death in June 1993, opposition regrouped around misogyny.On Sunday, May 9, 1993, in his Mother's Day sermon, senior pastor Calvin Butts—leading the Abyssinian Baptist Church, in New York City's Harlem section—vowing a symbolic act, solicited offending music samples.